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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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